The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • greater_potater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    8 months ago

    hopefully this is just a ‘blip’ and rates of theft begin to fall again as the economy recovers.

    If not, we can expect to see legal channels raising their prices again to cover the losses caused by piracy.

    This is a crazy thing to write. Every streaming service already has their prices set at whatever they think will maximize profit. If they raise prices in response to piracy, they’ll push even more people away.

    If anything, piracy will serve as competition, and it will cause the streaming services to lower prices.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      8 months ago

      piracy will serve as competition

      for shows sold exclusively to one streaming service then piracy is indeed the only competition

    • applebusch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      8 months ago

      Wow they’re just straight up calling it theft now. They can’t even pretend to understand the difference.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      Piracy doesn’t compete on price. Maintaining a server, Internet, and VPN access has a cost beyond the technical knowledge needed to set it all up.

      Piracy competes on service. Sick of ads? Sick of your favorite shows disappearing from your services? Tired of the Disney vault (they have the content but won’t let you stream it any more) problem? Can’t find the thing on any service? Like obscure and rare content? Like fan edits? Like to curate collections and playlists? Like HD on any and every device you own? Like easy offline content syncning for when you’re traveling to a spot with spotty Internet? Like sharing your library with friends and family? Tired managing multiple streaming subscriptions and navigating the content to find what you really want to watch? Your friendly neighborhood pirate community has a solution for you. Lower prices aren’t even in the top ten reasons lots of people pirate.